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Subject: Re: sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus?
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Michael R. Cook writes:
 > From: Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
 > To: ding@ifi.uio.no
 > Subject: Re: sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus?
 > Date: 11 Oct 1996 16:41:58 -0400
 > 
 > >>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
 > 
 >  >> There are only two problems with Quinoa....  First of all, it's not a
 >  >> fruit, it's a grain.
 > 
 >  LMI> Who are we to quibble?
 > 
 >  >> Secondly, the pronunciation is so odd that only
 >  >> those truly interested in esoterica will be able to pronounce it
 >  >> properly (Think Keen-wah, accent on the first syllable).
 > 
 >  LMI> I think that's a feature, not a bug.  :-)
 > 
 > If you'd like a difficult-to-pronounce, okay-if-not-quiet-a-fruit, Q-name, I
 > can do one better: Quincunx Gnus.
 > 
 > \'kwin-,k*n(k)s : an arrangement of five plant parts.
 > 
 > It's got the "Gnus 5" base covered, too. :-)

Hmmm, more generally, ANY arrangement of 5 parts... but it was such a
god-awfully bad novel (a Dicken's wannabe, without the charm... I kept
waiting for McCawber (sp?) to show up)